Ironing-machine



No. 6l8,062. 'Pa tented Ian. 24, I899. c. w. DANGLEMYER.

IBUNING MAGHINE.

Application filed July 81, 1896.)

(No Model.)

VP/KM Nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES IV. DANGLEMYER, OF DUBUQUE, IOIVA.

IRONING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,062, dated January 24, 1899.

Application filed July 21, 1896.

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. BANGLE- MYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Machines; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to ironing-machines, and it relates more particularly to machines for folding or turning over turndown collars, as well as turning over the tips or wings of stand-up collars, either when separate from or attached to a shirt.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter described, illustrated in the drawings,and pointed outin the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved ironing-machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the ironing or turning roll and its supporting and operating arm. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the segmental collar-support.

1 indicates a supporting-ring for the operative parts of the machine, preferably circular in shape and adapted to be suitably in position upon any desired supporting-tableas, for instance, by means of screws 2. To the ring 1 is secured a segmental band 3, and the curvature of the same may of course be varied. The band 3 widens toward its lower edge, as seen plainly in Fig. 3, and the upper edge is made rounding and adapted to receive the washed and starched collar to be ironed and turned. The band is provided with legs 5, which are bolted or screwed to the ring 1.

The ring 1 is provided with arms 6, radiating from a central hub, and rising from the latter is a post or standard 7, to the upper end of which is pivoted one end of an arm 8, whose opposite end is adapted to carry an ironing and turning roll. The said roll is indicated at 10 in the drawings, and the same possesses valuable features in construction and is very efficient in its operation. The said roll is mounted upon the arm so as to be readily removed therefrom when desired Serial No. 600,062. (No model.)

I and also to be moved or adjusted laterally upon said arm. The roll 10 is confined in position upon the arm by confining-collars 11 12, provided with set-screws 13 for engaging the arm.

The collar 12 has an enlargement or shoulder 14 with a circumferential lip 15, which engages over the edge of the roll, which latter is provided with an internal recess or chamber 18, so that when the roll is in position between the disks the collar 12 closes the recess and forms a closed chamber. The extreme outer end of the arm carries an operating-handle 19, which is detachably mounted in position, so that by removing the handle and loosening the set-screw 13 of the collar 11 the roll may be readily removed from the arm.

For the purpose of heating the roll I provide a metallic pipe 20, which enters the collar 12 at one end and leads into the recess in the roll, while the opposite end of the pipe is adapted to be attached to a flexible tube 21, leading off to some source of heat-supplying means-as, for instance, to a gas-supply pipe or burner. The gas issuing from the inner end of pipe 20 may be lighted through an opening 23 in the collar. Several such openings may be provided, whereby ample supply of .air is admitted for combustion. The roll is provided with a circumferential groove or indentation 25, preferably tapering in shape, as shown, and within which groove the upper edge of the band is adapted to snugly fit, as seen in Fig. 1. The depth of the groove may of course be varied.

It will be noted that by reason of the arm being journaled at the center of the circle of which the band is a segment the said roll may be caused to travel upon the upperedge of the band from one end to the other, as desired, so that a collar laid upon the upper edge of the band will be operated upon by the roll in its swinging movements, and thus'by the cooperation of the rounded edge of the band and the groove in the roll said collar is turned over smoothly without a break and properly ironed. By swinging the arm back and forth for a time the collar will be polished.

For turning over the tips or Wings of standup collars the collar is held so that the wing or point laps over or embraces the edge of band 3 and the arm 8 operated to swing the roll 10 back and forth over the wing, to thereby turn over and polish it.

By reason of the front semicircular portion of the ring 1 projecting beyond the edge of the table or support an open space is left between the said portion and the support, whereby lengthy articles, such as ladies shirt-waists, may be passed up through said space to adapt the collar to be easily arranged upon the band 3.

It will be noted that my device is simple and inexpensive in construction and is compact and portable, adapting it to be readily attached to and removed from a support, said device being efficient for the purpose in view.

lVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a segmental band, of an arm pivotally mounted and adapted to swing in an arc of a circle of which the band is a segment, a hollow roll mounted on the arm at a point to adapt it to cooperate with the edge of the band as described, a confining-collar arranged on each side of the roll, one of said collars adapted to close the chamber in the roll and being provided with openings, and a pipe leading through said collar into the chamber.

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a segmental band, of an arm pivotally mounted and adapted to swing in an arc of a circle of which the band is a segment, a hollow roll mounted on the arm at a point to adapt it to cooperate with the edge of the band as described, a confin- 

